The umbrella man resumen
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In the resulting chaos companies went under, people lost their livelihoods, marriages failed, suicides were contemplated. The long story is fictionalised in The Umbrella Men to cut it short, the lending bank was going rapidly and spectacularly bust and turned on its small business clients in a vain attempt at repairing its balance sheet. My enforced self-redundancy was the consequence of a corporate loan taken out with a major bank in 2007, just before all the Lehman Brothers stuff kicked off. And the circumstances of it made me angry, which – with an associated need for catharsis – gave me the motivation as well as the opportunity to write the book. No, that sounds like I had more say in the matter than was the case I was forced to make myself redundant.
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The Umbrella Men, my first novel, was written because suddenly I did have the time. People have neither the skills nor the time. Fortunately, perhaps, most of these books will never be written. You will end up talking with someone about the one topic on which they are an expert: themselves.Ĭarter’s First Law of Social Awkwardness is based in the commonly-held belief that ‘everyone has a book in them’. You might learn something, always a good thing andĢ. Make it your task is to find out what it is, and you won’t be bored. It’s got me through many potentially disastrous situations of this sort, and states that: Everyone, including the dullest person in the room, knows something that you don’t. Call it Carter’s First Law of Social Awkwardness. So, I’m going to let you in on a secret of mine. Oh, hang on – maybe that means I am the dullest person at the party… So I normally end up stuck talking to the dullest person at the party, the socially more able people (which is everyone else) having successfully ‘circulated’ away. It just seems so rude to change conversational groups: you must either slope off hoping no-one will notice, which is unlikely, or make an excuse – and mine always come out sounding like, ‘I’ve just seen someone more interesting than you, so am off to talk with them instead’.
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I’m terrible at parties I can’t ‘circulate’. The background to how I came to write The Umbrella Men is expressed well in this article that I wrote for The Big Issue (it’s about a 3 minute read):
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